In what looks like a watershed moment in negotiations between the Alliance of Motion Picture & Television Producers and the Writers Guild of America, the producers offered a new-media plan that they claim will add $130 million in compensation for…
Federal Communications Commission Chairman Kevin J. Martin is proposing his agency vote in December to open a formal inquiry into the adequacy of product placement disclosures. Also on the docket is whether changes in FCC rules are needed in light…
“Perplexing” is the word Comcast is using to characterize plans by Federal Communications Commission Chairman Kevin J. Martin to schedule a December FCC vote that would reimpose an overturned cap on any one cable provider reaching more than 30% of…
Reshuffling at Fox marketing has former Fox marketing exec Laurel Bernard rejoining the company as senior VP, marketing. Also making a move are affiliate marketing executives Nick Belperio and Michelle Garry, who now have the titles of senior VP and…
Esquire magazine is partnering with Mojo, the all-high-definition channel catering to upscale men, to create on-air high-def interstitials offering style and service information. Mojo approached Esquire with the idea as it looks to expand the network’s brand in the most…
Black Friday sales increased 8.3% this year, but holiday shoppers spent 3.5% less per person, according to TVPredictions.com. The National Retail Federation reported that 147 million people went to stores on the day after Thanksgiving, a 4.8% increase from last…
HD programming picks for Nov. 29-Dec. 5: “Family Plot,” “The Closer,” “The Victoria’s Secret Fashion Show” “Family Plot” (HDNet). Saturday, Dec. 1, 7:15 p.m.: Alfred Hitchcock’s final film, about a phony psychic and her cohort hired to find the lost…
Booking Continues, Even If Late-Night Shows Don’t Late-night shows might not be currently in production, but their celebrity bookers needs to be ready at a moment’s notice in case production resumes, Daily Variety reports. Late-night bookers are still trying to…
A tentative agreement has been reached on a new contract for some 250 ABC News employees (including some WABC-TV personnel) who are members of the Writers Guild of America, East, and had been working under a contract that expired in…